Job Description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly.



The Apple Services Engineering Music ML team is looking for a passionate ML Software Engineering Manager to lead a variety of key initiatives to keep us at the cutting edge of music recommendations, personalisation, and artificial intelligence. Your leadership and ingenuity will be critical to our success.



Are you passionate about building a world-class engineering team and fostering the growth of your employees? Do you want to manage services that use state-of-the-art machine learning to recommend music to tens of millions of people?




Do you embrace ownership and accountability? Do you want to work hand-in-hand with great people across Research, Engineering and Product in our mission to connect our users to the music they love?

Description

You are a trustworthy and capable manager who can lead great software engineers & managers, develop them appropriately, and guide them to work together to deliver amazing products for our customers.



You will instill an inclusive team culture, and grow the team while maintaining world-class excellence and diversity.



You will realise your vision of modern, machine-learning and AI focused system architectures that enable fast model iteration, and the use of state-of-the-art music analysis and recommendation models.



Based in central London, you will also collaborate with and manage Apple teams in the US.



Is this you? If so we'd love to hear from you.

Preferred Qualifications

A proven track record of leading, motivating and building strong software teams - enabling engineers to do the best work of their lifetime

Proven experience as a leader having set technical direction and strategy in the form of technical roadmaps and executing on it.

A vision of how to build modern recommendation systems and how to engineer modern ML-driven pipelines, APIs and services at scale

Attention to detail and a strong passion for quality - experience architecting, designing and developing high quality personalisation experiences

Ability to effectively communicate with multi-functional teams about product requirements, system architecture, APIs and project schedules.

Minimum Qualifications

Experienced in managing software engineering teams running core AI/ML services and/or ML systems at scale

Previous experience with hands-on work and shipping products in an AI and/or ML domain, like recommender systems, NLP, information retrieval, relevance, ranking, or large language models.

Strong track record previously as an individual contributor having engineered and shipped services & features at scale.

BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Machine Learning; or significant practical experience in software engineering



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